Ezekiel 23:12 — Meaning and Application

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“She doted upon the Assyrians {her} neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.”

Ezekiel 23:12

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These discovered her nakedness: they took her sons and her daughters, and slew her with the sword: and she became famous among women; for they had executed judgment upon her. {famous: Heb. a name}

And when her sister Aholibah saw {this}, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in {her} whoredoms. {she was...: Heb. she corrupted her inordinate love more than, etc} {more than...: Heb. more than the whoredoms of her sister}

She doted upon the Assyrians {her} neighbours, captains and rulers clothed most gorgeously, horsemen riding upon horses, all of them desirable young men.

Then I saw that she was defiled, {that} they {took} both one way,

And {that} she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men pourtrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans pourtrayed with vermilion,

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Ezekiel 23:1

"The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying,"

Ezekiel 23:2

"Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother:"

Ezekiel 23:3

"And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity."

Ezekiel 23:4

"And the names of them {were} Aholah the elder, and Aholibah her sister: and they were mine, and they bare sons and daughters. Thus {were} their names; Samaria {is} Aholah, and Jerusalem Aholibah. {Aholah: that is, His tent, or, tabernacle} {Aholibah: that is, My tabernacle in her}"

Ezekiel 23:5

"And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians {her} neighbours,"

Ezekiel 23:6

"{Which were} clothed with blue, captains and rulers, all of them desirable young men, horsemen riding upon horses."

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